Cisco IOS Contract Job Trends in England

Cisco IOS
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Cisco IOS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 553 432 463
Rank change year-on-year -121 +31 +34
Contract jobs citing Cisco IOS 75 77 56
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.28% 0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.75% 2.35% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 25 26
10th Percentile £213 £455 £145
25th Percentile £400 £500 £265
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £510 £408
Median % change year-on-year +12.75% +25.15% -2.40%
75th Percentile £609 £575 £475
90th Percentile £637 £613 £619
UK median daily rate £535 £500 £408
% change year-on-year +7.00% +22.70% +1.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 12 1
10th Percentile £49.24 - -
25th Percentile £50.72 £29.00 -
Median hourly rate £54.88 £30.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +82.92% -53.85% +120.34%
75th Percentile £57.47 £40.81 -
90th Percentile £58.01 £57.20 -
UK median hourly rate £54.88 £30.00 £51.50
% change year-on-year +82.92% -41.75% +51.47%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

Cisco IOS falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,281 3,277 3,946
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.31% 11.89% 12.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,550 2,044 2,325
10th Percentile £250 £235 £248
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £510
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -3.92% +2.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £614
90th Percentile £676 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £480 £505
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.95% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 364 165 224
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.36
25th Percentile £19.96 £25.00 £22.66
Median hourly rate £32.50 £41.45 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -21.59% -27.72% +1.52%
75th Percentile £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.42 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.72 £42.50 £51.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -17.48% -8.83%

Cisco IOS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cisco IOS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Cisco IOS job vacancy trend in England

Cisco IOS
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Cisco IOS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Cisco IOS

Cisco IOS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco IOS in England over the 6 months to 14 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco IOS in England

Cisco IOS
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Cisco IOS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Cisco IOS

Cisco IOS
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco IOS within the England region over the 6 months to 14 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -71 26 £600 +9.09% 34
North of England -55 24 £585 - 8
North West -36 19 £608 - 4
West Midlands -43 10 £225 -59.09% 3
Midlands -44 10 £225 -59.09% 4
South West -41 6 £565 +182.50% 8
South East -81 5 £600 +20.00% 8
Yorkshire - 4 £400 - 2
North East -39 1 - - 2
East of England -47 1 £475 -8.65% 2
Cisco IOS
UK

Cisco IOS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.33%) Confluence
3 1 (1.33%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 11 (14.67%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (4.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Monis
Cloud Services
1 15 (20.00%) Azure
2 14 (18.67%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (10.67%) Entra ID
4 7 (9.33%) OneDrive
5 3 (4.00%) Slack
6 2 (2.67%) AWS
6 2 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (1.33%) GCP
7 1 (1.33%) GitHub
7 1 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.33%) IBM Watson
Communications & Networking
1 42 (56.00%) Firewall
2 35 (46.67%) BGP
3 33 (44.00%) NX-OS
4 28 (37.33%) WAN
5 26 (34.67%) VLAN
6 23 (30.67%) Wireless
7 21 (28.00%) DNS
8 20 (26.67%) OSPF
9 19 (25.33%) DHCP
9 19 (25.33%) VPN
10 12 (16.00%) IOS XR
10 12 (16.00%) NAS
10 12 (16.00%) Network Security
10 12 (16.00%) SAN
10 12 (16.00%) Structured Cabling
11 11 (14.67%) EIGRP
11 11 (14.67%) Ethernet
11 11 (14.67%) LAN
12 10 (13.33%) SD-WAN
12 10 (13.33%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 5 (6.67%) Git
2 3 (4.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.33%) GitLab
3 1 (1.33%) JIRA
3 1 (1.33%) Robot Framework
General
1 35 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.00%) Finance
3 8 (10.67%) Banking
3 8 (10.67%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (2.67%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (2.67%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.67%) Police
4 2 (2.67%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.33%) Electronics
5 1 (1.33%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.33%) Legal
5 1 (1.33%) Military
5 1 (1.33%) Publishing
5 1 (1.33%) Retail
5 1 (1.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 42 (56.00%) Network Engineer
2 14 (18.67%) Architect
2 14 (18.67%) Senior
3 11 (14.67%) Cisco Engineer
4 10 (13.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 10 (13.33%) Senior Network Engineer
5 8 (10.67%) Automation Engineer
6 7 (9.33%) Technical Architect
7 6 (8.00%) Help Desk Support
7 6 (8.00%) Help Desk Support Technician
7 6 (8.00%) Help Desk Technician
7 6 (8.00%) Support Technician
8 5 (6.67%) Network Architect
9 4 (5.33%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 4 (5.33%) Senior Cisco Engineer
9 4 (5.33%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
10 3 (4.00%) Core Network Engineer
10 3 (4.00%) IT Support
10 3 (4.00%) Network Deployment Engineer
10 3 (4.00%) Senior Core Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.00%) Terraform
2 6 (8.00%) NETCONF
2 6 (8.00%) REST
3 5 (6.67%) 802.1X
4 3 (4.00%) RESTCONF
4 3 (4.00%) YANG
5 2 (2.67%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 26 (34.67%) Data Centre
2 8 (10.67%) Onboarding
3 6 (8.00%) Smartphone
4 4 (5.33%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.67%) BYOD
5 2 (2.67%) CMDB
5 2 (2.67%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.67%) Hedge funds
5 2 (2.67%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.67%) Mobile Computing
6 1 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.33%) Life Science
6 1 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.33%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.33%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.33%) SCADA
6 1 (1.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 13 (17.33%) Windows
2 10 (13.33%) Android
3 6 (8.00%) Linux
4 3 (4.00%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.67%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.33%) CentOS
6 1 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (22.67%) ITSM
2 13 (17.33%) Migration
2 13 (17.33%) Network Segmentation
3 11 (14.67%) Customer Service
4 9 (12.00%) Asset Management
4 9 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (12.00%) Mentoring
5 7 (9.33%) ITIL
5 7 (9.33%) Knowledge Transfer
5 7 (9.33%) Validation
6 6 (8.00%) AI
6 6 (8.00%) Customer Experience
6 6 (8.00%) Network Architecture
6 6 (8.00%) Network Monitoring
6 6 (8.00%) Problem Management
7 5 (6.67%) Change Management
7 5 (6.67%) Project Delivery
7 5 (6.67%) Project Planning
7 5 (6.67%) Roadmaps
7 5 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 26 (34.67%) Python
2 2 (2.67%) Perl
2 2 (2.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.33%) Bash
3 1 (1.33%) R
Qualifications
1 35 (46.67%) Cisco Certification
2 28 (37.33%) CCNP
3 24 (32.00%) Security Cleared
4 20 (26.67%) SC Cleared
5 15 (20.00%) CCNA
6 11 (14.67%) Network+ Certification
6 11 (14.67%) Server+ Certification
7 9 (12.00%) CCIE
8 8 (10.67%) DV Cleared
9 5 (6.67%) Degree
10 2 (2.67%) JNCIE
11 1 (1.33%) CCIE Routing and Switching
11 1 (1.33%) CCIE Security
11 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (1.33%) CWNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.00%) SLA
2 3 (4.00%) NIST
3 1 (1.33%) Def Stans
3 1 (1.33%) NIST 800
System Software
1 10 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 6 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.33%) vSphere
4 3 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.67%) Docker
6 1 (1.33%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.33%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 17 (22.67%) Ansible
2 7 (9.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (8.00%) SCCM
4 3 (4.00%) FortiGate
4 3 (4.00%) Nagios
5 2 (2.67%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (2.67%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.33%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (1.33%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (1.33%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 75 (100.00%) Cisco
2 22 (29.33%) Fortinet
3 17 (22.67%) Microsoft
4 13 (17.33%) ServiceNow
5 11 (14.67%) Arista
5 11 (14.67%) Juniper
5 11 (14.67%) Palo Alto
6 8 (10.67%) VMware
7 7 (9.33%) Meraki
8 6 (8.00%) Canon
9 5 (6.67%) F5
10 4 (5.33%) SevOne
11 3 (4.00%) Citrix
11 3 (4.00%) NetScout
11 3 (4.00%) SolarWinds
11 3 (4.00%) Splunk
12 2 (2.67%) Apple
12 2 (2.67%) FireEye
12 2 (2.67%) McAfee
13 1 (1.33%) Rockwell